Severance Isn’t on Netflix: Where to Stream It in the US and What It Costs Now

No. Severance is an Apple Original, and in the United States it streams through Apple TV, the subscription Apple called Apple TV+ until October 2025. JustWatch’s US listing, checked October 29, 2026, names only two places to stream it: Apple TV itself and the Apple TV channel inside Amazon’s Prime Video app. Netflix, Hulu, HBO Max and Peacock’s own library are not on that list. What did change this fall is the bill. Apple raised the monthly price from $12.99 to $14.99 on August 28, 2026, and the Apple TV and Peacock bundle went up on September 1, so the cheapest way in now depends on what you already pay for.

The free “Severance” in your apps is a 2006 horror film

Part of the confusion is a name clash. The Apple series follows Mark Scout, played by Adam Scott, who leads a team at Lumon Industries whose employees have had their memories surgically divided between their work and personal lives. Severance is also a 2006 comedy horror film, directed by Christopher Smith and starring Danny Dyer and Laura Harris, in which co-workers on a team-building trip to a mountain forest in Hungary are hunted down one by one. In the US that film is included with Prime Video and free with ads on The Roku Channel, Philo, Fandango at Home Free and Xumo Play, according to JustWatch. It is rated R and runs 96 minutes.

The Apple series does appear in the Prime Video app, but only through the Apple TV channel, a paid add-on with its own trial, not as part of a Prime membership. So if an app offers “Severance” at no extra cost, check for a 2006 date and a single 96-minute runtime before you settle in expecting Mark and Lumon.

What each US route costs now

These routes all lead to Apple TV’s programming, but billing, eligibility and the way you cancel differ. The Prime Video channel mentioned above is left out of the table; if you pay for Apple TV through Amazon, Apple says you can cancel it only through Amazon. Prices are US list prices on October 29, 2026.

Route	Price	What else you get	Makes sense if
Apple TV, monthly	$14.99 a month; 7-day free trial for new subscribers only	Apple Originals with no ads, plus live F1, MLS and Friday Night Baseball	Severance is the main reason you’re subscribing
Apple TV, annual	$119 a year	The same service, paid up front	You’d keep Apple TV at least eight months
Apple One Individual	$21.95 a month	Apple Music, Apple Arcade and 50GB of iCloud+	You want Apple Music or the other services too
Apple Music Student plan	$6.99 a month; first month free for new subscribers	Apple Music, plus Apple TV access under a limited-time student offer	You’re a verified college student
Apple TV and Peacock Premium bundle	$17.99 a month	Peacock Premium, which includes ads	You’d keep paying $12.99 for Peacock Premium anyway
Apple TV and Peacock Premium Plus bundle	$22.99 a month	Peacock Premium Plus	You’d keep paying $19.99 for Peacock Premium Plus anyway
New iPhone, iPad, Mac or Apple TV	3 months free	New or qualified returning subscribers only; one offer per family	You bought an eligible device, aren’t currently subscribed, and neither you nor your Family Sharing group has previously accepted a three-month or one-year free Apple TV offer

Two of those rows come with strings. Apple’s terms say the device offer must be claimed in the Apple TV app within 3 months of setting up the new device, and that cancelling during the free period ends access immediately, so if you don’t plan to keep paying, cancel near the end and at least a day before it renews. The student route is for verified college students only and doesn’t extend to a Family Sharing group. Apple TV access is a limited-time benefit that may end; it also ends when you no longer qualify or stop renewing the student plan.

You don’t need Apple hardware to watch, only for the device offer. Apple lists its TV app on Roku and Amazon Fire TV devices, Chromecast with Google TV, PlayStation and Xbox consoles, and smart TVs from Samsung, LG, Sony, VIZIO and TCL. What you can’t do is trade down to a cheaper plan with ads: Variety notes that Apple TV is the only major streaming service without an ad-supported tier. The upside is that Apple Originals are commercial-free on every route in the table, including the Peacock Premium bundle, where the ads sit on Peacock’s side. Our Apple TV page collects the other Apple titles we cover.

The math that decides it

Apple’s App Store listing for the bundle advertises savings of $9.99 a month on the Premium version and $11.99 on Premium Plus. Those figures compare the bundle with paying the full monthly price for both services, which only matters if you were going to buy both anyway. For most people the more useful number is the gap against what is already on the card. The Premium bundle at $17.99 costs $5 more than Peacock Premium alone at $12.99. The Premium Plus bundle at $22.99 costs $3 more than Premium Plus alone at $19.99. Those gaps assume you pay Peacock’s full monthly list price; an annual Peacock plan, a discounted offer or the cheaper Peacock Select tier needs its own comparison.

There is fine print. Apple’s announcement says the bundle can’t be bought through third-party device partners and that existing subscriptions may need managing to avoid multiple charges. If you switch, make sure the old standalone Peacock plan, or an older Apple TV plan, has actually ended. People who already had the bundle moved to the new prices on their first billing date on or after October 1, so a $3 rise on that bill matches the announced change.

The annual plan is simpler arithmetic. Twelve months at $14.99 comes to $179.88, so paying $119 up front saves $60.88 over a full year. The break-even sits at 7.94 months, though, which makes it a poor buy for one binge and a sensible one only if Ted Lasso, Silo, Pluribus and the rest of Apple’s catalog would keep you subscribed for most of the year.

Apple One Individual, at $21.95, is worth a look if you also want Apple Music, Apple Arcade or iCloud+ storage. If you already pay $11.99 for Apple Music, it adds Apple TV, Apple Arcade and 50GB of iCloud+ for $9.96 more. If Apple TV is the only service you would use, it costs $6.96 a month more than Apple TV alone.

All 19 episodes, with Apple’s dates and runtimes

Two seasons are out. Season one launched with two episodes on February 18, 2022 and then added one each Friday until all nine were out on April 8; season two ran one episode every Friday from January 17 to March 21, 2025, ten in all. Added up from the runtimes in the Apple TV app’s season list, the whole series is 938 minutes, or 15 hours and 38 minutes.

Episode	Title	US release	Runtime
S1 E1	Good News About Hell	Feb 18, 2022	57m
S1 E2	Half Loop	Feb 18, 2022	53m
S1 E3	In Perpetuity	Feb 25, 2022	57m
S1 E4	The You You Are	Mar 4, 2022	47m
S1 E5	The Grim Barbarity of Optics and Design	Mar 11, 2022	44m
S1 E6	Hide and Seek	Mar 18, 2022	40m
S1 E7	Defiant Jazz	Mar 25, 2022	50m
S1 E8	What’s for Dinner?	Apr 1, 2022	47m
S1 E9	The We We Are	Apr 8, 2022	40m
S2 E1	Hello, Ms. Cobel	Jan 17, 2025	49m
S2 E2	Goodbye, Mrs. Selvig	Jan 24, 2025	46m
S2 E3	Who Is Alive?	Jan 31, 2025	54m
S2 E4	Woe’s Hollow	Feb 7, 2025	51m
S2 E5	Trojan’s Horse	Feb 14, 2025	47m
S2 E6	Attila	Feb 21, 2025	48m
S2 E7	Chikhai Bardo	Feb 28, 2025	50m
S2 E8	Sweet Vitriol	Mar 7, 2025	37m
S2 E9	The After Hours	Mar 14, 2025	45m
S2 E10	Cold Harbor	Mar 21, 2025	1h 16m

One caution on the minutes: Apple’s individual episode pages can show a different rounded runtime than the season list (season one’s “In Perpetuity” is 56 minutes on its own page and 57 in the list), so treat 938 minutes as a planning estimate rather than an exact playback time. The finale, “Cold Harbor,” is the longest at 1 hour 16 minutes. “Sweet Vitriol,” the eighth episode of season two, is the shortest at 37.

Season 3: filming began in July 2026; no premiere date

Apple announced a third season on March 21, 2025, the same date its press site gives for the season two finale. Filming started in late July 2026: Ben Stiller shared a production photo on X and Apple TV’s account reposted it, which 9to5Mac reported on July 27. As of October 29, 2026, Apple has not named a premiere date, and TVLine’s renewal tracker, updated October 26, lists the return date as TBD. 9to5Mac’s own estimate is late 2027, and it is only that. Season two arrived nearly three years after season one, so I’d treat any season three episode date on a listings site as a placeholder until Apple’s press site posts one.

My pick, and where to start

If Severance is the only reason you’re signing up and you’re new to Apple TV, the seven-day trial can cover it, but only just: 938 minutes in seven days averages about 134 minutes a day, close to three episodes. That works on a week off and feels like homework on a work week. Apple says to cancel a trial at least 24 hours before it ends if you don’t want it to renew. Check whether cancelling ends your trial access right away rather than assuming a seventh viewing day remains; finishing within six days takes about 156 minutes a day.

The calmer option is one paid month at $14.99, which leaves room for an episode or two a night. Verified college students pay less while Apple’s student offer lasts: the Apple Music Student plan at $6.99 includes Apple TV access, $8 a month under Apple TV alone. If you already pay full monthly price for Peacock Premium or Premium Plus and plan to keep it, switching to the corresponding bundle adds $5 or $3 a month; check the trial, student and device offers above first, and make sure you aren’t paying for two overlapping subscriptions. I’d skip the annual plan unless you already know you’ll be watching Apple shows in month eight.

Start at season one, episode one, “Good News About Hell,” and watch in order. Apple rates the series TV-MA, with content advisories for sexual content, language and violence, and its title page shows Common Sense Media’s age recommendation of 15+. For a spoiler-free sense of the premise before you pay, our Severance viewing guide starts there. If you’re timing a cancellation, our guide to cancelling before a renewal date walks through billing periods, and if the Peacock half of the bundle has you weighing ads against price, our guide to ad-supported plans covers that trade.

Sources and verification

Apple TV · Severance title page (US) — episode titles and runtimes in the season list, TV-MA rating, content advisories, Common Sense age note, trial price
Apple TV · Severance season 1, episode 3 page (US) — example of an episode page runtime one minute shorter than the season list
Apple TV Press · Severance episodes and images — US release date and title of all 19 episodes (season selector)
Apple TV Press · Severance premiere date announcement (December 2021) — season one release pattern and episode count
Apple TV Press · Severance season two premiere date (July 2024) — season two release pattern and episode count
Apple TV Press · Severance season three renewal (March 21, 2025) — renewal date, current Apple TV price and trial, new-device offer, supported devices
Apple · Apple TV — monthly price after trial, commercial-free Apple Originals, live sports, Apple Music Student access, device offer
Apple · Apple One — Apple One Individual price and per-service price breakdown
Apple App Store · Bundle Apple TV and Peacock — current bundle prices, advertised savings and included Apple Originals
Apple Newsroom · Apple and NBCUniversal introduce the Apple TV and Peacock Bundle (October 16, 2025) — bundle fine print and Apple TV formerly Apple TV+
Apple Support · Cancel a subscription from Apple — cancel a trial at least 24 hours before it ends
Apple Support · How to cancel Apple TV — Apple TV paid through Amazon can be cancelled only through Amazon
Apple · Apple TV new-device offer terms (PDF) — eligibility, one offer per family, claim window and loss of access if cancelled during the free period
Variety · Apple TV raises price of streaming service in US (August 28, 2026) — Apple TV monthly and annual prices, Apple One Individual price, no ad-supported plan
Variety · Peacock raises prices (August 18, 2026) — Peacock Premium and Premium Plus standalone prices
Subscription Insider · Apple-Peacock bundle price rises (September 3, 2026) — bundle price change on September 1 and timing for existing subscribers
9to5Mac · Apple TV+ rebranded as just Apple TV (October 13, 2025) — the rename from Apple TV+ to Apple TV
9to5Mac · Apple teases Severance season 3 (July 27, 2026) — season three filming start and the outlet's late-2027 estimate
TVLine · Renewed and canceled shows scorecard — Severance season three return date listed as TBD
JustWatch · Severance (TV show, US) — US streaming services listed for the series
JustWatch · Severance (2006 film, US) — US availability, rating and runtime of the 2006 film
Wikipedia · Severance (film) — year, director, cast and setting of the 2006 film

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